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One Commander vs Take Command

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When comparing One Commander vs Take Command, the Slant community recommends One Commander for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for Windows?” One Commander is ranked 38th while Take Command is ranked 52nd. The most important reason people chose One Commander is:

Free for non commercial use.

Specs

OS Windows 10 version 17763.0 or higher

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Pros

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Free

Free for non commercial use.

Pro
Simple and fast

Fast search and filter.

Pro
Miller columns

Like Finder from macOS.

Pro
Multi tab support

Pro
Themes

Light, dark and customizable themes/colours.

Pro
Default file manager setup

Can make it the default file manager such that windows explorer stays out of the way for most of the work.

Pro
File previews

Pro
File / folder filters

Pro
Folder views can be saved and applied

Pro
Text processing tools

Regular expression pattern enabled tools for text filtering, searching, substitution, and conversion.

Pro
Powerfull scripting language

Powerfull scripting language with a lot of commands and predefined variables.

Pro
File compression tools

File compression tools, e.g. bz2, gz, tar, 7zip and zip.

Pro
FTP Command Line Client

Command line driven FTP client.

Pro
Batch Debugger

It has a GUI Debugger for Batch files as well the own scripting language (BTM).

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Cons

Con
Folders cannot be sorted by size

Con
Cannot access Android device connected by USB

Con
Cannot access Android device by FTP

And can never will as this is clarified by developer that this feature will never be added.

Con
It doesn't have UNDO function

Very important. When you work with valuable data files, this function can't be ommited.

Con
Navigating folders by Ctrl+Tab has considerable delay

Con
Browsing Recycle Bin is very slow

Navigating away from Recycle Bin tab and coming back to it reload the Recycle Bin which is very slow as mentioned. Program has an option to open recycle bin in Windows File Explorer, which suggests that developer is aware that opening Recycle Bin is problematic.